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The Maryland women's basketball team will play fellow national power Connecticut next season for the first time in program history. The teams will meet in the Jimmy V Women's Classic on Dec. 3, ESPN and The V Foundation for Cancer Research announced Tuesday. The 11th-annual game will take place at one of UConn's two playing facilities — the XL Center in Hartford or Gampel Pavilion in Storrs — and will be shown on ESPN2. The event will fall on the night before the men's Jimmy V Classic in New York. The Huskies will come to College Park for a game against the Terrapins in 2013. "When I was approached with the opportunity for Maryland to be a part of...

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